Herreshoff #192104es [Sailing Lifeboat for #267p Enaj III]

"... Another of Capt Herreshoff's early designs is in active use at the Seaport. This is the tender from the steam yacht Comfort [#267p ex-Enaj III] which is now used aboard the Seaport's 62-ft schooner Brillant in a like capacity. The Brilliant is an integral part of the Seaport's mariner training program." (Source: Anon. "Herreshoff Boats Displayed At Mystic Seaport." Bristol Phoenix, October 16, 1964, p. 20.)

"Dixie
YACHT TENDER BY HERRESHOFF
18' 7" x 5' 6" ca. 1910-20
When Commodore George P.P. Bonnell bought the 89-foot Herreshoff power yacht Comfort in the middle of the Depression, there were two boats aboard. Since then both have become part of Mystic Seaport's watercraft collection by different paths. (The other is Cormorant Rose [#190901ep], a 17' power launch, 1975.466.) Comfort, which had been built in 1909 as Enaj, perished in the 1938 hurricane but her boats were both rescued. For a while, until old age got the best of her and she was returned to him, this boat was loaned by Bonnell to Mystic Seaport as a tender for the schooner Brilliant. To our knowledge three others have been built recently using this hull for measurements and details, but all three were smooth-planked rather than lapstraked. Joel White's yard in Brooklin, Maine, produced two, one for Brilliant and one for the Hudson River sloop Clearwater. When the first of these was lost at sea from Brilliant a few years ago, Barry Thomas built the third boat, Afterglow, to replace her.
Herreshoff referred to this model and even to her smaller sisters as lifeboats, which for that time was surely true. But today, considering how boats of this type are most often used and to avoid any confusion with the standard ship's lifeboat, it seems appropriate to use the term tender.
STATUS: Fiberglass tape on plank laps, original, fair condition.
DONOR: Robert Florin
FURTHER READING: [Herreshoff, L. Francis. The Common Sense of Yacht Design. New York: The Rudder Publishing Company, 1948.
Thomas, Barry. Building the Herreshoff Dinghy. Mystic, Connecticut: Mystic Seaport Publications, 1977. Gives detailed description of building a similar boat.]
ACCESSION NO. 1974.995." (Source: Bray, Maynard with Benjamin A. G. Fuller and Peter T. Vermilya. Mystic Seaport Watercraft. Mystic, Connecticut, 2001, p. 209.)

"Drawn by H.[erbert] F. Newman; Approved by A. S. De W. H. ... Molds of #568 [Sailing dinghy for St. Y. Colonia] see Table of Offsets below. ... Mast & Sail are like mizzen of 28-49 (76-124). Gov. Measurements 142 Cu. Ft. 14 Persons. ... Life boat for 'Enaj'. Job # 11362. March 1921. Same as this drawing but no air tanks, no false keel and sheer height made 25 1/2in above keel inside. Weight 400lbs." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. Notes on Plan HH.5.02055 (028-056): Rowing Boats > 18'-8" Lifeboat for Palmer Yacht (1920-07-13). Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum. Cambridge, MA.)

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